Story Writer Quotes

17 Story Writer quotes by 16 unique authors

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story… — Orson Scott Card
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too,… — Eudora Welty
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years… — Porochista Khakpour
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief. — John Fante
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever — Irwin Shaw
Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying… — O. Henry
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew… — Tobias Wolff
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger
Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of… — ZZ Packer
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and… — George R. R. Martin
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. — George Saunders
Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat… — Saadat Hasan Manto
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker. — Christopher Moore
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and… — Eric Brown

Who Wrote These Story Writer Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Story Writer Quotes as follows: